Ike's Money Request Cut One Point One Billion
The House appropriations committee approved a subcommittee plan cutting 1.1 billion dollars from President Eisenhower's request for no foreign aid program. Reductions hit military aid funds for Europe Asia and the Americas with cuts to mutual defense planning and special economic assistance. The panel sent three bills to the House floor to authorize new money of 4.43 billion and allow 2.6 billion in unobligated carryover funds for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
House
Truman
Mutual Defense Fund
Europe
Near East
Africa
Asia
The
Pacific
Six Convicted in Aga Khan Gem Robbery
Six of YZ men were found guilty in the 850000 jewel robbery of the Aga Khan and his begum on the French Riviera. Sentences ranged from four to ten years in prison. Three other defendants were acquitted. three others were tried in absentia. The Aga Khan did not attend. his begum testified as the prosecution star witness.
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Aix EN Provence
France
Aga Khan
Begum
Winston Churchill
Dine Aga Khan
French Riviera
George Lindsay Watson
Lloyd's of London
Shrimp Boats Freed In Tampico Seizure Row
Mexican authorities released five U S shrimp boats seized Friday by the gunboat David Porter near Tampico Mexico. The action ends a diplomatic tension over the disputed fishing boats and their crews.
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Tampico
Mexico
U. S
David Porter
Four Die in Head-On Collision Near Bergamo Italy
Four occupants of an automobile were killed and 20 bus passengers injured Friday night in a head on collision near Bergamo Italy. None of the injured were named, and the accident remained under investigation by local authorities.
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Bergamo
Italy
Here
Soviet Union expands trade drive with Western nations
The Soviet Union signs a three year commercial pact with France and Denmark negotiates five new cold storage freighters as part of a 21 million dollar deal. Sweden pact noted, while Britain reports dumping 30,000 ounces of platinum and plans to buy wheat and metals. Trade talks with British grain brokers target up to 60 million tons of wheat.
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London
Soviet Union
France
Denmark
Kremlin
United States
Copenhagen
Sweden
British Board of Trade
Russia
Britain
MIG Killer Jabara Heads Home After Decorations
U F Maj James Jabara history's first jet ace and second triple jet ace was awarded three more Oak Leaf Clusters to his Distinguished Flying Cross before leaving for home. He received the fourth, fifth and sixth Oak Leaf Clusters from Lt Gen Samuel Anderson of the Fifth Air Force and then departed for Japan en route to Wichita Kansas. Jabara credited with shooting down 15 Communist MiG 15s in Korea said it was hard to leave as long as MIGs were flying.
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Seoul
U.F
James Jabara
Fifth Air Force
Samuel Anderson
Japan
Wichita
Kan
Jabara
Korea
Inventor Dies at 82 in Princeton Hospital
Henry W. Jeffers, 82, inventor of a rotary milking machine and president of Walker-Gordon Laboratory Co., died Friday night at Princeton Hospital after a brief illness. He was a noted engineer with several patented designs and led innovations in dairy processing. He is survived by a son and daughter, with services pending.
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Princeton
Henry W. Jeffers
Walker-Gordon Laboratory Co
Princejton Hospital
Tankers Leave 3000 Cans of Beer Behind on Goat Trail
General Patton tanks advance into a valley captured by the Chinese as they destroy abandoned arms and ammunition. A beer tent remains untouched, with soldiers lamenting the missed party while noting vast beer supplies could have lasted a unit a month. Sgt. Ressoe and Cpl. Biron comment on the irony and longing for a post combat toast.
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iUel
Patton
Albertis Ressoe
Kearney
Neb
Cpl
Raymond Biron
Beecher Falls
Hernandez
Twins Born At Jamboree Probe Of Toadebirth In Camp
Dayton 13 year old Jim Schardt picked up a toad en route to Jamboree City. Scouts report toad birth of twins during the camp and plan a special meeting. Glendale youth Javed Husain from Karachi enjoys California, with arrivals expected from Paris and Greece. Orange County Sea Scouts guard Upper Newport Bay while Puerto Rican troops adjust to the heat and busy camp.
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Jim Schardt
Dayton
Ohio
Grand Canyon
Jambo
Ree
Glendale
Javed Husain
Karachi
India
Husain
California
Paris
Greece
Orange County Sea Scouts
Newport Bay
100000th Polio Gamma Globulin Shot Delivered
Decatur area finishes mass polio inoculations as doctors and nurses vaccinate nearly 12,848 children today, reaching 100000th recipient five year old Diana Sue Deardorff. Foundation officials say serum limits prevent shots for overweight age 10 and under, despite parents’ pleas.
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Decatur
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Diana Sue Deardorff
Polio Foundation
Foundation
Bones of One Hunter Found Two Sought in Gaspe
Provincial police in Gaspe report only one of three Pennsylvania hunters found. Remains believed to be Eugene Lindsey, 45, discovered about 63 miles west of Gaspe in rugged bush. Lindsey’s son Richard, 17, and Fred Claar from Hollidaysburg are missing. authorities deem little chance they survive. Search began after June bear hunt trip on June 12 and resumed three weeks later. Remains found during air and ground search on a bush trail.
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Gaspe. Que
Pennsylvania
Gaspe Peninsula
Eugene
Lindsey
Gaspe
Richard
Fred Claar
Hollidaysburg
lGaspe
Bush Trail
Circus Plagued Elephant Breaks Leg and Trainer Bitten
INDIANAPOLIS Fi Two mishaps struck a charity circus Friday night. A 200-pound bear attacked assistant bear trainer William Scamshorn as he cleaned the cage, leaving him with a deeply bitten leg. Chief trainer Paul Lemery fought the bear off with a training cane. Scamshorn was treated and released. Tommie the five-year-old one ton elephant broke her leg after slipping from a tub during an act. She limped away on three legs as trainers awaited verdict from Dr J Henderson Sare nota Flo, the circus veterinarian, on whether the elephant can be saved.
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Indianapolis
William Scamshorn
Paul Lemery
Scamihorn
General Hospital
Tommie
Tom Pack
J. ¥. Henderson
Sarenota
Flo
Circus
Body of Marine Drowns off Laguna Beach July 13
The body of U S Marine Kenneth M Baker 21 Camp Pendleton was recovered this morning about 200 yards from the spot where he vanished while swimming with friends. David King Laguna Beach night clerk spotted the body at 6 40 a m and it was taken to Lakewood Mortuary.
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Laguna Beach
U. S
Hej
Kenneth M. Baker
Camp Pendleton
David King
Laguna Hotel
Lakewood Mortuary
Nurse's scream panics would be attacker near Atlantic Ave
A 47 year old woman, Doris Mae Healy, a nurse at Harriman Jones Clinic Hospital, reports a would be attacker seized her as she unlocked her apartment door at 1039 Atlantic Ave Friday. She screamed and the suspect fled.
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Atlantic Ave
Doris Mae Healy
Harriman Jones Clinic Hospital
Eisenhower expected to seek debt limit increase soon
Washington sources say President Eisenhower will ask Congress to raise the legal U.S. debt ceiling. A decision is anticipated by late next week as Treasury data show debt at 272.56 billion after WW II era peaks and ongoing borrowing needs through year end. Officials privately warn the required rise may exceed the minimum 2.9 billion.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
U. S
Treasury Department
Treasury
Brawl Aboard Virginia City Victory Leaves Three Injured
Three seamen were hurt in a brawl aboard the freighter Virginia City Victory berthed at Berth 232 in Terminal Island. Luis Gil, 31, of New York, was arrested on assault with a deadly weapon charges as police responded to distress signals. Wilbur Young, 31, and Juan Pena, 23, were treated. Young remained hospitalized while Pena was released and Gil jailed.
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San Pedro
Terminal Island
Luis Gil
New York
Wilbur Young
Juan Pena
Pena
Young
Seaside Hospital
Long Beach
Gil
Long Beach Unified School District adopts fourth preliminary budget
The Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education approved a fourth preliminary operating budget for 1953 54, about 2 million dollars higher than last year. A public hearing is set for August 3 at 4 p.m. in the Board building before final adoption. The plan shows 2 113 073 dollars for new school construction and 8 863 093 93 IOE bond funds allocated for financing schools under construction or planned to begin.
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Long Beach Unified
Board of Education
Arthur A. Knoll
Two Folsom Lifers Convicted of Murder
Two Folsom lifers Wolfe and Johansen were convicted in Superior Court for the knife slaying of Harold Stricker last May 8. The verdict carries death in the gas chamber for Wolfe and Johansen, who are already serving life terms for other murders in Fresno and Alameda Counties. Automatic appeal to the State Supreme Court follows.
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Sacrament
Superior Court
Harold Stricker
James F
Wolfe
Joseph Johansen
Folsom
Fresno County
Johansen
Alameda County
State Supreme Court
Kimball Named President of Aerojet General Corp
Dan A. Kimball, former Secretary of the Navy, is selected as president of Aerojet General Corp, a General Tire & Rubber Co subsidiary, in Cincinnati.
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Kimball
Cincinnati
Dan A. Kimball
Navy
Aerojet General Corp
General Tire &Rubber Co
Air Force Funding Fight Shrinks after Senate Move
Washington reports growing doubt in Air Force supporters as the Senate appropriations panel approves a 34.5 billion dollar defense bill for the year ending July 1, boosting total above House levels but facing possible Senate approval battles amid Democratic pressure and Republican splits over the Eisenhower administration cuts. The dispute centers on more than five billion dollars slashed from new funds, with lawmakers debating the impact and prospects of restoration.
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Washington—L. Air Force
Eisenhower
Senate Appropriations Committee
Air Force
Army
Navy
House
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Ens. Russell
D.~ Ga
Maybank
D-S. C
Appropriations Committee
Dulles Warns We’ll Fight On for Just Peace
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a nationwide radio television audience that the United Nations seeks a truce and honorable peace with Communists ready to wage war if needed. Assistant Secretary Walter S. Robertson, fresh from Korea, said Syngman Rhee pledged cooperation but feared a post armistice propaganda drive. Dulles stressed Western ministers conference offers Russia a path to peace by joining a Big Four talks on Germany and Austria. He warned against using a truce to stall genuine negotiations and noted unrest in satellite states hints at Soviet weakness.
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Washington
Ter Dulles
United Nations
U.N
Syngman Rhee
Dulles
Walter S. Robertson
Russia
Germany
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
Fear Commie Agents Kidnap Polish Priest
Polish refugees join Bradford police in a search for Father Henry Borynski an outspoken anti Communist priest who vanished after a mysterious phone call fearfully amid Bradford s 1500 strong Polish community police report Polish officials had harassed Poles and urged return to Communist Poland last fall
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Bhalford
England
Bradford
Henry Borynski
Father Borynski
Poland
Beginning of End Seen in Southwestern Drouth
Dallas report quotes federal soil conservation expert Louis P Merrill observing promising rains easing southwestern drought after parched Texas areas like Abilene and Fort Worth. he notes pastures greening and foresees a possible end if rains continue. Johnson calls for 118 million beef buying program. Davis urges grocers to delay campaign due to rising cattle prices. Benson has not planned emergency steps beyond initial purchases.
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Dallas
Texas
CRI
Southwest
Louis P. Merrill
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Abilene
Fort Worth
Merrill
West Texas
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
John H.davis
U. S. Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corp
Johnson
Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Davis
Demand for Death Penalty Withdrawn in Los Angeles Case
Los Angeles prosecutors drop the capital demand in the Ruth Sredenek case. The defendant, charged with fatally slaying his wife and mutilating the body, faced a closing argument arguing the evidence does not show a capital crime. Superior Judge Harold Schweitzer will instruct the jury when it returns Monday morning.
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Sredeneks
Ruth
Arroyo
Joseph T. Powers
Hia
Harold W. Superiorare
Schweitzer
Mother offers to sell eye for family security in Texas
An expectant 22 year old mother with three children in a Knox City area farm home near Wichita Falls placed a classified ad offering to sell one of her eyes for 10000 dollars to provide security for her family. She asked for anonymity and praised her husband as a good provider.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Knox City
Multiple Wilmington Car Crashes Injure Eight
Eight people were injured in three separate Wilmington crashes. Marian Burhorn, 49, of Long Beach, was arrested for drunken driving after her car went out of control and struck a fence on Bayview and St. at St. and Tipped. Betty Beehorn, 40, of San Pedro, and a passenger were treated at Wilmington Receiving Hospital. Patricia Schaffer, 48, wife of another driver, was hurt in a second collision. In a third crash at Anaheim Street and Sanford Avenue, Eugene Tuttle and John Qooman collided, with Tuttle and several passengers treated for minor injuries at the same hospital.
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Wilmington
Marian Burhorn
E. Carson St
Long Beach
Jon & St
Bayview Ave
Wilming- 53
Minnesota
Ralph Yates
Gaviota St
Yates
Patricia Schaffer
Wilmington Receiving Hospital
Sera
Anaheim St
Sanford Ave
Eugene Tuttle
John Qooman
Los Angeles
Colie
Tuttle
Evelyn Hayes
Ituttle
Jean Webster
Hetty Webster
Lewis Are
Thomas
Thrown 30 Feet, Cyclist Gravely Hurt
Compton police report a motor cycle crash on Rosecrans land Burrit Aves at 2 30 am injuring Richard LeRoy Foley Jr 21 of 1521 N Mona Blvd critically He was hurled after hitting a curb at high speed suffering skull fracture and internal injuries An ambulance was called and Foley received emergency treatment before being transferred to General Hospital Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff E P Weber witnessed the crash
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Compton
Rosecransland Burrit Aves
Richard LeRoy Foley Jr
N. Mona Blvd
Lee Foley
E. P. Weber
Foley
General Hospital
Los Angeles
Trailer City Houses Sect at Convention
In Piscataway Township New Jersey a massive trailer city for 30000 people has risen on sunbaked farmland to house part of Jehovahs Witnesses for the Say convention in Yankee Stadium 26 miles away. Members arrive in groups as the international event begins in New York with about 70000 Witnesses expected, some in hotels or with locals. Roads to the camp resemble a summer weekend flow to the Jersey shore.
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Piscataway Township
N. J
Yankee Stadium
New York
Jersey Shore
Robbery in Naples Bar Meeting Involving Compton Woman
Margaret J. Davis aged 54 of 2316 Bliss Street reported she was robbed of 27 dollars and shoved from a car on E Second Street in the Naples area after meeting two men and a woman at a Compton bar. She said she rode around Long Beach for several hours before the robbery.
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Compton
Han
E. Second St
Naples
Margaret J. Davis
Bliss St
Long Beach
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Air Force Fund
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Whitey
Edward C. Christensen
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John Fosinist
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Romania
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